To:G. K. ORJONIKIDZE

Published:First published in part in 1925 in the book, M. D. Orakhelashvili,Lenin i ZSFSR(Lenin and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). Tiflis.

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeSergo:

BothStalin and Sokolnikov have turned out to be
against appropriations for an electric-power station near
Tiflis.

Compromise:Tumanov’s trip.

Payparticularattention to this (it also involves the
question oftea, etc.).

Collectall the material (for the business manager).

Sendme both the material and a short summary (for
me personally). This will be a hard
fight.[1]

Yours,Lenin

[1]Duringthe discussion of appropriations for the construction of
the Zemo-Avchal Hydropower Station near Tiflis, A. S. Svanidze,
agent for the People’s Commissariat for Finance of the
R.S.F.S.R. and the People’s Commissariat for Finance of the
Transcaucasian Federation, declared that the Tiflis Soviet, had
enough resources to build the station without Moscow aid. This
standpoint was upheld by Stalin and Sokolnikov. In view of the
differences on this question, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.)
C.C. on October 12, 1922, instructed N. G. Tumanov, senior
controller of the People’s Commissariat for Finance, to find out
at the Georgian C.P.C. whether local resources would suffice,
how much was necessary and how far a loan could be covered by
Georgian tea.

Thisquestion was finally settled later. On March 1, 1923, the
Politbureau, taking into account the protest of the Georgian
C.P.C., the Tiflis Soviet and the power-station construction
committee, and also G. K. Orjonikidze’s proposal, decided to let
the Tiflis City Executive Committee have a 750,000 gold-ruble
loan to cover the needs of the power station (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).